REALPOLITIK PERSPECTIVE ON THE BYZANTINE GAZA CONFLAGRATION “Green mixed with red creates yellow, one of the most dynamic colour with unique power to induce contradictory vibrations that can strengthen or weaken the environment by stimulating relations or sowing betrayal and danger . The forging of a geopolitical partnership between a ‘Red’ China with a ‘Green’ Iran emits ominous portends.” – Col RS Sidhu “It is commonsense in byzantine conflicts that the affected population be most wary of being reduced to pawns in the power games of friends and foes alike, for the only fate that awaits pawns is to be sacrificed at the altar of the God of War.” – Col RS Sidhu Battle of Perception The past half a century has spawned nearly a hundred inter and intra state wars, conflicts, and insurrections caused by irredentist ideology, religious bigotry, ethnic persecution, and plain rapaciousness. The violence during this period has resulted in enforced change of close to fifty int
